Air-torpedo.



.P. G. WING.

. AIR TORPEDO.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12. 19M.

WITNESSES 1 6562 )ffl M a W flaw/Me 1 ATTORNEYS barren srarns P @FFIfiEr PETER G. WING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIG-NOR TO KLOTZ MANUFACTURING COM- PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

A AIR-TORPEDO.

Application filed November 12, 1914.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER G. WING, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Air-Torpedoes, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a toy adapted to produce an audible report similar to that produced by a gun, torpedo, or firecracker, but without the use of dangerous explosives, and comprises certain improvements'over the toy or air-torpedo shown in the United States Patent granted to Otto Langos September 26, 1911, as No. 1,004,043. In the torpedo shown and described in said Langos patent, appliances are provided for automatically feeding the strip of paper, the puncture of which produces the audible report which the invention is intended to produce, but in this invention all means for automatically feeding the ribbon or strip of paper are omitted and the ribbon is fed manually after each operation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the pneumatic cylinder, the stick or handle being shown in elevation; Fig. 2 is an elevation looking toward the left, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, partly in section, of those parts which directly engage the paper ribbon; and Fig. 4 is a view looking downwardly from the top of Fig. 3.

The pneumatic cylinder 1 is provided with a movable piston 2 and a piston rod 3 of greater length than the cylinder, which rod projects through an aperture 4 in the lower edge 5 of the cylinder, said aperture 4 being sleeved, as shown in Fig. 1, in order to guide the piston rod 3 and keep the axis of the piston rod 3 and the axis of the cylinder in alinement. The compression spring 6 is placed between the head 7 and the piston 2 and acts normally to press the piston head 2 downwardly in Fig. 1. When the piston is forced in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, such movement is against the resistance of the spring.

The upper head 7 of the cylinder 1 is provided with a circular perforation 8, and in said circular perforation the flange 9 is received, said flange being formed integrally with or otherwise permanently united to the flat cars 10. Said flange-like member 9 is Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1916.

Serial No. 871,669.

provided with the cup-like annular recess 11 and 1n said recess the gasket 12 made of rubber or other resilient material is adapted to seat.

The stick 13 carries a knob or other convenient handle 14 at its upper end, and to the lower end of the stick 13 there is riveted a stamping or piece of sheet metal which comprises the two flat plates 15, the ribbon or strip 16 connecting said plates, and the ears 1'? which are riveted or fastened at 18 to the stick 13. The strap 16 is perforated at 19 and when the device is assembled the perforation 19 is in alinement with the perforation 20 in the rubber gasket 12 and with the perforation in the flanged member 9. The perforation 19 is surrounded by an annular lip 21, which lip or bead in an obvious manner is adapted to press down upon the gasket 12 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 8.

The two parts 15 are spaced apart from each other a little less distance than the distance which separates the members 10, and when the device is assembled, the members 10 are outside of but in engagement with the members 15. A rod or pintle 22 serves pivotally to connect the members 10 and 15, but the perforation 28 in each member 15 in which the pintle 22 is received is slightly larger in diameter than the diameter of the pintle in order to permit a certain amount of play to the parts. A similar pintle 24 cross-connects the two members 10 at the ends opposite the pintle 22 and said pintle 24 is received within the slots 25 in the members 15. The object of providing the two pintles 23 and 24 with their respective mountings is to permit a certain amount of playin the device which would not be present if the members 10 were in ordinary pivotal connection with the handle or with the stamping at the bottom of the handle and in securing the requisite amount of play to permit the ribbon of paper 26 to be tightly grasped between the beading 21 and the gasket 12. The paper is carried in the form of an ordinary spool 27 suitably supported by the wire belt 28 which is fastened to the stick 13 at 29, and, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, the paper 26 is passed through the space between the bead 21 and the gasket 12.

When it is desired to operate the device so as to produce the desired detonation or report, the operator presses down sharply upon the stick. The bottom of the piston rod 3 rests upon the floor or the sidewalk and when the stick is forced downwardly, the cylinder 1 and connected parts are moved therewith. The volume of air which is normally contained within the cylinder in the space between the piston head 2 and the perforated head 7 is quickly com ressed as the piston head and cylinder head move toward each other, and when this volume of air attains a certain degree of pressure, it will rupture the ribbon 26 at the circular space where the ribbon seats between the beading 21 and the gasket 12, and as the ribbon is thus ruptured by the escaping volume of the compressed air, the desired noise or detonation is produced. When the ribbon has been ruptured and the downward push upon the handle 13 removed, the helical spring 6 will return the piston head 2 to starting position, after which the operator can manually pull the ribbon 26 a short distance from right to left, Fig. 1, until an unbroken area of the ribbon 26 is presented to the gasket 12 and then the operationcan be repeated, it being obvious that after each report is produced the ribbon must be fed and then'the piston head 2 and the cylinder head 7 forced to move toward each other. In order to permit the paper 26 to be drawn through from right to left the parts should be tipped to the position indicated by the dotted lines, Fig. 1, thus separating the beading 21 and the gasket 12 and providing a space through which the paper may pass without tearing or friction. Whenever the operator pushes downwardly upon the cane, however, the parts will resume the positions depicted in full lines in Fig. 1, and the beading 16 willlie flat and in the same plane as the gasket so that every point upon the circumference of the beading will be pressing upon the gasket, although, of course, directly engaging the ribbon of paper which passes between the beading 21 and the gasket 12. By having the perforations 23 a little larger in size than the pintle 22, and by receiving the pintle 24 within the slots 25, the plane in which the face of the beading 21 lies may be parallel to the plane of the upper surface of the gasket 12, whereas if the perforation 23 were just large enough to receive the pintle 22, the two planes aforesaid would not be parallel to each other but would lie in different radii of the same circle.

Sundry changes in the details of construe-V tion and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. An air torpedo, comprising an air cylinder: having an outlet port, means for compressing air in said cylinder, an element having an opening registering with the outlet port, and an offset depending flange surrounding said opening and fitted and secured in the outlet port and an element adapted to clamp a ribbon in operative position on said port movably secured to said flanged element.

2. A device of the character described comprising a stick, a member made of sheet material secured to the bottom thereof, said 7 3. A device of the character described comprising a stick, a perforated member secured to said stick having a bead or lip surrounding the perforation therein, an-aircylinder having a movable piston therein and having one head perforated, said perforation in said head being adaptcd'to register with said first-mentioned perforation, a flange member mounted upon the perforated head and having a corresponding perforation and an annular depression surrounding said perforation, a resilient gasket arranged in the annular depression and adapted to form a seat for said head or lip, and means for holding said cylinder upon the member which'carries said bead.

1. A device of the character described comprising a stick, a perforated member secured to said stick having a bead or lip surrounding the perforation therein, an aircylinder having a movable piston therein and having one head perforated, said perforation in said head beingadapted to register with said first-mentioned perforation, a flange-like member adapted to be secured within the perforation in said head, said flange-like member being provided with a seat, a resilient gasket retained in said seat, said gasket being adapted to come opposite to said bead or lip, and means extending from said flange-like member and engaging the member having said first-mentioned perforation, thereby to hold said cylinder upon said stick.

5. A device of the character described 7 comprising a stick, a member secured thereto comprising two sides, a perforated crosspiece there being a bead surrounding the ing sides which lie in planes parallel to the sides of said first-mentioned member, means carried upon the cylinder head and adapted to form a seat for the head on said crosspiece, and means connecting the sides of one of said members to the sides of the other of said members, thereby to hold the cylinder upon the stick.

6. A device of the character described comprising a stick, a member secured thereto comprising two sides, a perforated cross-piece there being a bead surrounding the perforation, an air-cylinder having a movable piston therein and having one head perforated, the perforation in said head being adapted to register with the perforation in said cross-piece, a member secured within the perforation in said head and having sides which lie in planes parallel to the sides of said first-mentioned member, means carried upon the cylinder head and adapted to form a seat for the head on said cross-piece, and pintles adapted to hold the cylinder upon the sides of the member which carries said bead, said sides being provided with perforations larger in diameter than the diameters of said pintles, said pintles being received within said perforations.

7. An air torpedo, comprising an air cylinder having an outlet port, means for compressing air in said cylinder, an element having an opening registering with the outlet port, a top recess larger than and concentric with the opening, and an offset depending fiange surrounding said opening and fitted and secured in the outlet port, a rubber annulus fitted in the top recess, and an element adapted to clamp a ribbon in operative position on said port movably secured to said flanged element.

8. An air torpedo, comprising an air cylinder having an end outlet port, means for compressing air in said cylinder, an element on the end of the cylinder over the end port and having an opening registering with the port, and an annular depending flanged portion, the material of the lower depending end of which is bent outwardly around the annular margin of the port and a clamping element pivoted to said first mentioned element and adapted to clamp a ribbon in operative position over said port.

9. An air tropedo, comprising an air cylinder, a piston fitted in the lower end of the cylinder, said cylinder having an outlet port in its upper end, an element rigidly attached to the upper end of the cylinder and having an opening registering with the outlet port and a top recess, an annular rubber cushion in the top recess, and a clamping element pivoted to the rigid element and adapted to clamp a sound producing ribbon on the annular rubber cushion and over the outlet port of the cylinder.

10. An air torpedo, comprising an air cylinder, a piston fitted in the lower end of said cylinder; said cylinder having an outlet opening or port in its upper end, and a clamping element attached to the upper end of the cylinder and having two connected members and a transverse guide for a sound producing ribbon between said members, the lower member being rigidly secured to the end of the cylinder and having an opening registering with the outlet portion, the upper member being pivoted to the lower member and adapted to be pressed against any convenient object to clamp the ribbon between said members.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my name in the presence of two wit- IlGSSGS- PETER G. WING. Witnesses OSCAR MILLER, ROBT. KLo'rz.

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